An API User account: This is essentially a Mercury account, with a long-life security token, which will go into the {token} path param of the every endpoint. This token is unique to each user. This will make it easy to audit and track and separate out the activity done via the API vs a human user. One security token has already been sent to you as part of the Welcome email. Note: If you require additional tokens, please contact the Connective Helpdesk.

API Key

For each API request, add the following header. This is the API key provided to you in the API welcome email, which uniquely identifies your broker group. This key is the same for both v1 and sandbox

x-api-key:keyvalue

For example, assuming you are using Postman, and want to search for opportunities in your sandbox account, which were updated after 20th March 2017 you will need to do this: